Posted
by
timothy
on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @12:16PM
from the professional-envy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian Recording Industry Association and the MPAA's Canadian
subsidiary are demanding
that Canada adopt copyright laws that go beyond even the DMCA. The
groups demand anti-circumvention law, three strikes and you're out
legislation, and increased secondary liability for websites. The
demands come as part of the national copyright
consultation in which hundreds of Canadians have spoken out against such
reforms."

Not with Harper in power. He likes to roll over and play dead for anything corporate. Fortunately its a minority and the senate is still there to protect the interests of the people of Canada. On a side note, I haven't seen anything from CBC so I don't know how many Canadians actually know this is happening. If I am wrong it would be nice to see a link to the article.

Uh, the Senate? Stop legislation in Canada? I don't think so. I can recall only a single time in the past 30 years when they DELAYED some legislation briefly (a month or two).

And I hope they can stop this legislation, because right after it, the media companies will immediately go to Congress and demand changes in copyright law to match or exceed that in Canada, "just to give US companies equal protection".

Listen, can't we all just recognize that all parties are completely inept? I mean the NDP would be happy taxing us to death for the poor, the downtrodden, whatever, I can't vote for the Bloc out here in BC (even though I would -- just to see what happened) and the green party is nothing but conservatives dressed in green - I like none of their policies. The liberals are a bunch of wankers who can't seem to get any sort of cohesion, and the conservatives are fucking nuts.

Do you remember the private copying levy that the Liberals introduced back in 1997? Where we have to pay extra money on all blank media we buy here to compensate the poor media companies and the losses they incur?

Actually, this was a godsend in disguise, because it essentially created a giant loophole for Bittorrent operators in Canada. The CRIA hasn't been nearly as successful as their American counterpart because infringing citizens can happily point to the levy and say, "You're already getting your cut, so STFU."